#erica

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. ↗

— Pat Paulsen

#face #immigration #immigration policy #indian #part

The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt’s dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins’ oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy’s idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city. ↗

— John Updike

#art #thomas-eakins #art

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today. ↗

— Arthur Kroker

#black #black hole #body #disappearing #edge

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#america #copy #life #poetry #prose

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. ↗

— William Kunstler

#american history #another #because #before #chicago

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#america #between #british #canada #choose

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people. ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#american #american people #ask #continued #dodging

The American public is sick and tired of being lied to. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#american public #being #being lied to #lied #public

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#america #been #capital #credibility #crucial

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i